The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 87
No one wished it to be noticed that he could see nothing, for then he would have been unfit for his office, or else very stupid.
Who acts: one, Emperor · What happens: wish, notice, see, be · To what, where: train, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Emperor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wished | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 noticed | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 noticed | aux:pass |
| 7 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wished | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 noticed | advcl |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 unfit | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 then | case |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 unfit | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 unfit | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 unfit | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 unfit | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 unfit | cop |
| 20 | unfit | unfit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wished | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 office | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 office | nmod:poss |
| 23 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 unfit | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stupid | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 stupid | cc |
| 26 | else | else | ADV | _ | 28 stupid | advmod |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 stupid | advmod |
| 28 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 unfit | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | no one | train | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | notice | to-infinitive · passive | no one not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 3 | see | could | Emperor | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | would · perfect | Emperor | for Emperor's office; unfit property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | Emperor not said here | else property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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